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  • 06.12.25

Author: Richard Sternberg

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Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024, 3:56 PM

From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University.

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Richard Sternberg, Jonathan McLatchie, and Casey Luskin
May 1, 2024, 9:56 PM

Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function.

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Richard Sternberg
July 29, 2020, 3:57 PM

DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another

It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage.

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Richard Sternberg
July 16, 2020, 2:09 PM

Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features

In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’”

Richard Sternberg
April 3, 2020, 5:08 AM

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics.

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